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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. Algorithms and data are required to compete. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

million software developers worldwide. Are there complexities revolving around algorithms or databases? What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process? tew_cta text="Do you have an idea for a software project? Or do you need help evaluating software firms? In 2023, there were approximately 26.3

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Yes, the software patent process is a mess. I say this with conviction even after I survived the process, and have a software patent pending. Software technology changes rapidly.

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Match Algorithm and Inputs

SoCal CTO

One of the common questions that I commonly get is: Tony, what inputs should we use as the basis for our matching algorithm? How should the resulting algorithm use those inputs to form matches? Is the resulting algorithm okay to use in your startup? fit into a matching algorithm. This is classic filtering.

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Quantum Computing – An Update

Steve Blank

They are faster on a small set of specialized algorithms. These special algorithms are what make quantum computers potentially valuable. For example, running Grover’s algorithm on a quantum computer can search unstructured data faster than a classical computer. You start with the algorithm you intend to run. That’s wrong.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

We needed the matching algorithm. Review the code being built. Simple MVPs get built with less the 3 Programmer Months worth of effort (that's 3 months a single programmer working full-time). More complex MVPs are going to be 12+ Programmer months. There are some MVPs that are unavoidably complex. Plan for past the initial MVP.